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| CHAPTER 31 | THE FAIR DEAL AND CONTAINMENT | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1944 |
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act |
| April 1945 |
FDR died |
| 1947 |
Taft-Hartley Act |
| 1947 |
Truman Doctrine |
| 1947 |
Marshall Plan launched |
| 1947 |
HUAC investigated Hollywood |
| April 1947 |
Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball |
| June 1948–May 1949 |
Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift |
| July 1948 |
Truman ordered end to racial segregation in the military |
| 1948 |
Creation of Israel |
| 1948 |
Marshall Plan started |
| 1948–1950 |
Hiss case |
| April 1949 |
Establishment of NATO |
| 1949 |
China became Communist |
| 1949 |
Soviet Union detonated atomic bomb |
| February 1950 |
Senator Joseph McCarthy’s speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, citing Communists in the State Department |
| June 1950–July 1953 |
Korean War |
| April 1951 |
MacArthur dismissed |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Analyze the problems of demobilization and conversion to peacetime
production.
- Account for Truman’s troubles with Congress and assess the measure of
accomplishment that he achieved.
- Explain the policy of containment and trace its development to 1950.
- Describe Truman’s reelection in 1948.
- Assess the strength of McCarthyism in the United States.
- Explain the origins of the Korean War and trace its major developments.
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